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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers or Friends of HOLA who are getting acting, performance or similarly artistic gigs and/or recognition in the media. The names of HOLA members and Friends of HOLA are listed below in boldface. To see what other HOLA members are doing currently, click here.

Mario-Francisco Robles, shown at right, will be acting in Don't Judge A Play By Its Title. Written and directed by Mark Lord, the production will take place in February 2017 at St. Gregory's Church in the Bellerose area of Queens.2016 HOLA Awards recipient Sandor Juan; Cedric Leiba, Jr.; Marlyn Matías; Omar Pérez; and Marco Antonio Rodríguez are participating in 48 Hours in... El Bronx. An event where six playwrights (including Rodríguez), six directors (including 2016 HOLA Awards recipient Diego Chiri) and eighteen actors (include Juan, Leiba, Matías and Pérez) unite in six 10-minute plays (created over the span of 48 hours) of six Bronx sources and events. The performances of the Harlem9 and Pregones-PRTT co-production will take place on Sunday, December 18, 2016 at Pregones Theater, located in the Mott Haven area of the South Bronx. For more information, click here.2016 HOLA Awards recipient Pablo Andrade, shown at left,was featured in the weekly New York newspaper El Especial, where he spoke about his upcoming class of Uta Hagen technique (taught with María Fontanals) at the world renowned HB Studio (the first to be taught there in the Spanish language). To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here.2016 HOLA Performer's Choice Awards recipient Elizardi Castro is featured in a video as one of his characters, El Lucío, in a video on how to make coquito (the Puerto Rican equivalent of eggnog, with coconut milk and rum as its base ingredients instead). The holiday-themed video, which is in Spanish and which is directed by 2016 HOLA Performer's Choice Awards recipient Mike Oquendo, can be seen below.If you are an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, why not join? If you live outside the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, you can find out more information on how to do so, by clicking here. If you are not a Friend of HOLA, why not become one?